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Tautologous

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Tau`tol´o`gous
a.1.Repeating the same thing in different words; tautological.
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The territory is not the territory: toward a responsible epistemology by Golay, Pravesh Jung / ETC.: A Review of General Semantics
Emma Dexter writes about drawing's tautologous nature: "drawing forever describes its own making in its becoming .
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That it is pompous and dull, even tautologous, need not concern us.
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